Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: MMU: Don't flush shadow when enabling dirty tracking

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On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:08:45 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Instead, drop large mappings, which were the reason we dropped shadow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> v2: maintain largepage stats
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c  |   12 ++++++++----
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    7 +------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 43bd5e3..dc36088 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -3444,14 +3444,18 @@ void kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm, int slot)
>  		if (!test_bit(slot, sp->slot_bitmap))
>  			continue;
>  
> -		if (sp->role.level != PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
> -			continue;
> -
>  		pt = sp->spt;
> -		for (i = 0; i < PT64_ENT_PER_PAGE; ++i)
> +		for (i = 0; i < PT64_ENT_PER_PAGE; ++i) {
> +			if (sp->role.level != PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL
> +			    && is_large_pte(pt[i])) {
> +				drop_spte(kvm, &pt[i],
> +					  shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
> +				--kvm->stat.lpages;
> +			}
>  			/* avoid RMW */
>  			if (is_writable_pte(pt[i]))
>  				update_spte(&pt[i], pt[i] & ~PT_WRITABLE_MASK);

I'm a bit confused here.
rmap_write_protect() does drop_spte() but update_spte() in
/* check for huge page mappings */ loop.

I may be able to learn something from your share code later on.

Thanks,
  Takuya




> +		}
>  	}
>  	kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
>  }
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index b1b6cbb..b3bfeb8 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>  			    struct kvm_userspace_memory_region *mem,
>  			    int user_alloc)
>  {
> -	int r, flush_shadow = 0;
> +	int r;
>  	gfn_t base_gfn;
>  	unsigned long npages;
>  	unsigned long i;
> @@ -706,8 +706,6 @@ skip_lpage:
>  		if (kvm_create_dirty_bitmap(&new) < 0)
>  			goto out_free;
>  		/* destroy any largepage mappings for dirty tracking */
> -		if (old.npages)
> -			flush_shadow = 1;
>  	}
>  #else  /* not defined CONFIG_S390 */
>  	new.user_alloc = user_alloc;
> @@ -778,9 +776,6 @@ skip_lpage:
>  	kvm_free_physmem_slot(&old, &new);
>  	kfree(old_memslots);
>  
> -	if (flush_shadow)
> -		kvm_arch_flush_shadow(kvm);
> -
>  	return 0;
>  
>  out_free:
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
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